[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 247 (Thursday, December 24, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71279-71280]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-34083]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. RP99-183-000]
Viking Gas Transmission Company; Notice of Filing and Refund
Report
December 18, 1998.
Take notice that on December 14, 1998, Viking Gas Transmission
Company (Viking) tendered for filing as part of its FERC Gas Tariff,
First Revised Volume No. 1, the tariff sheets listed on Appendix A to
this filing.
Viking proposed that 1st Rev Sub Tenth Revised Sheet No. 6 be made
effective on November 1, 1997 and that the other tariff sheets listed
on Appendix A be made effective as designated thereon.
Viking also submits a refund report labeled ``Expansion Contracts
Demand Revenue Adjustments'' that details refunds Viking is making to
its Rate Schedule FT-C expansion customers.
Viking states that the purpose of this filing is to make a limited
Section 4 filing pursuant to 15 U.S.C. Sec. 717c to true-up Viking's
initial incremental demand rate for Rate Schedule FT-C service to $8.63
per month and to refund the difference between the initial and trued-up
rates for Rate Schedule FT-C expansion service. On November 12, 1996,
Viking Gas Transmission Company filed in Docket No. CP97-93-000,
pursuant to Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act, to construct and
operate 29.4 miles of pipeline looping and related facilities. As
discussed in the Commission's May 6, 1997 ``Order Issuing Certificate''
in Docket No. CP97-93-000, 79 FERC para. 61,136 (May 6, 1997 Order),
Viking proposed to make a retroactive true-up filing to adjust the
initial rate for FT-C service of $8.65 Dth/month after a final
accounting of the project was completed with Viking refunding the
difference between the initial and trued-up rates for Rate Schedule FT-
C expansion service to its customers. See Viking Gas Transmission
Company, 79 FERC para. 61,136, at 61,575 (1997). On September 23, 1997,
Viking filed in Docket No. RP97-534-000 to establish Rate Schedule FT-C
and to implement the initial incremental demand rate of $8.65 Dth/month
approved by the Commission in the May 6, 1997 Order.
Viking states that Sheet No. 6 reflects Viking's trued-up rates for
its Rate Schedule FT-C expansion service. Viking is also filing
workpapers that update the exhibits that Viking filed on November 12,
1996 in Docket No. CP97-93-000 as part of its ``Abbreviated Application
for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity.'' These
workpapers detail the differences between the costs underlying Viking's
initial and trued-up rates for Rate Schedule FT-C service as well as
the development of Viking's trued-up Rate Schedule FT-C rates. Viking's
refund report details the refund and interest owed to Viking's Rate
Schedule FT-C customers. (18 CFR 154.501). Viking further states that
it is refunding these amounts to its Rate Schedule FT-C expansion
customers in January 1999 by applying the refund amounts to its
invoices for December 1998. Viking began invoicing based on its trued-
up rates for services rendered in December 1998.
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Viking states that copies of the filing have been mailed to all of
its jurisdictional customers and to affected state regulatory
commissions.
Any person desiring to be heard or to protest said filing should
file a motion to intervene or a protest with the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20426, in
accordance with sections 385.214 or 385.211 of the Commission's Rules
and Regulations. All such motions or protests must be filed in
accordance with Section 154.210 of the Commission's Regulations.
Protests will be considered by the Commission in determining the
appropriate action to be taken, but will not serve to make protestants
parties to the proceedings. Any person wishing to become a party must
file a motion to intervene. Copies of this filing are on file with the
Commission and are available for public inspection in the Public
Reference Room
David P. Boergers,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-34083 Filed 12-23-98; 8:45 am]
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